WM. PRESTON LANE, JR., GOVERNOR. 643

ferred upon The Commissioners of Trappe to provide by ordi-
nance or ordinances when and how such connections shall be
made, and the fines and penalties for the failure, neglect or
refusal of property owners of houses or other buildings and
lands in said town to make or permit such connections, and
for injuries to or interference with said sewers, drains, pipes
and connections, and said fines and penalties shall be collected
as other penalties and fines are collected.

549D. Whenever said sewerage system and sewage disposal
plant shall be in proper working order for receiving and dis-
posing of the sewage or drainage of any property along the
line of said sewer, The Commissioners of Trappe shall have
full power and authority to compel all owners of said prop-
erty, and it shall become the duty of all such owners, at the
expense of said owners of said property, forthwith to connect
their respective houses or other buildings, drains, wells, sinks,
cesspools or other receptacles of sewage or drainage, with
said sewerage system, and forthwith either to seal up or fill
up their privy sinks, wells, cesspools, drains or sewage re-
ceptacles, and to abandon the use of the same, under the
direction and control of The Commissioners of Trappe. And
full power and authority is hereby conferred upon The Com-
missioners of Trappe to provide by ordinance or ordinances
fines and penalties for the failure, neglect or refusal of the
owners or occupants of such premises to seal up or fill up such
wells, privy sinks, cesspools, drains or other sewage receptacles,
or to submit to the sealing up or filling up same at the expense
of the said owners, or occupants.

549E. The Commissioners of Trappe shall have full power
and authority to fix from time to time schedules of rates for
the use of said sewerage system and sewage disposal plant by
the owners and occupants of private residences and other
buildings, and to collect said rates, which shall become a lien
on the property so served, in the same manner as taxes are now
collected. The funds thus received shall be first applied to
the cost of maintaining, operating and keeping in repair said
sewerage system, and sewage disposal plant, the balance at
the end of each year to be applied to the payment of the in-
terest on the bonds, the issue of which is hereinafter author-
ized to effect the purposes of this sub-heading, and to the pay-
ment of said bonds as same shall fall due, and for no other
purpose whatsoever. However, should the revenue derived
from the collection of the rates above-mentioned be inadequate
for the successful maintenance and operation of said sewerage
system and sewage disposal plant, or for other good and suffi-
cient reason, The Commissioners of Trappe are hereby author-